A Good Day to Stay Indoors?
By Hayden Mellsop / April 18, 2012
It is a fact that the best days to find fish rising to blue wings are often the best days to stay...
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Diary of a Dry Fly Tragic
By Hayden Mellsop / April 11, 2012
While there is an element of optimism inherent in any style of recreational fishing, I like to think it is heightened amongst...
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The Dog Days of March
By Hayden Mellsop / April 2, 2012
In a way I feel cheated. Cold spring days battling wind, snow and sleet on the river are as much a part...
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Fresh Powder, Dry Flies
By Hayden Mellsop / March 2, 2012
I called Kym from Monarch around the middle of the day for a weather report, trying to decide if I should stay...
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Robins, Harleys and Fly fishing
By Hayden Mellsop / February 18, 2012
Never mind the longer days, warmer temperatures and the return of the robins - the surest harbinger of spring is the sight...
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November, November
By Hayden Mellsop / November 19, 2011
The phone rang. It was Mr Pink on the other end. "Wanna float?' he asked. I looked out the window, dubious to...
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Three Says, Three Fish
By Hayden Mellsop / October 20, 2011
Three days, twenty six miles hiked, three fish landed, two broken off. Sounds a bit like the bare bones of a New Zealand...
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Fishing the High Country
By Hayden Mellsop / September 30, 2011
There's a small stream up at the head of the valley that I like to visit once or twice a year. The...
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Farewell to the Canyon
By Hayden Mellsop / September 11, 2011
We kicked back on the boat, toasting the day's first fish to the net - a lovely brown, buttery yellow underneath, silver...
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Missed Fishing, Missed Fish….
By Hayden Mellsop / August 28, 2011
My record for missing fish stands at nine in a row. Bad enough I know, but I was guiding at the time....
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Fishing With Kids
By Hayden Mellsop / August 11, 2011
This is a departure from my traditional video posts, brought about in part by a lack of opportunity to fish this summer....
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It’s Been Awhile….
By Hayden Mellsop / July 19, 2011
The phone rang in the morning. It was Caveman on the other end. "Man, we gotta get out on the river. I...
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Carp Fishing in Old Mexico
By Hayden Mellsop / June 17, 2011
"I'm going fishing tomorrow. San Luis Lakes" Kym regarded me over the top of her beer. "There are fish there?" "Kinda. Carp."...
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Who Ate All The Caddis???
By Hayden Mellsop / May 12, 2011
It's been a funny old spring for an angler on the Arkansas. The usual rules of engagement haven't been observed. What, you...
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Messing About in Boats
By Hayden Mellsop / April 25, 2011
"There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing around in boats.” Thus said Rat, in...
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